Social Worker-MSW LCSW Senior

Position Title: Social Worker-MSW LCSW Senior 

Location: North Hospital
Shift: Full-Time Evening Shift
Position Summary
The Social Worker - MSW LCSW Senior provides advanced clinical social work
services to patients and families at Fishers Hospital, with a focus on complex
discharge planning, crisis intervention, and mental health assessment. In
addition to direct patient care, this senior-level role provides clinical
supervision to social workers pursuing LCSW licensure, serves as a field
instructor for social work students, and acts as a subject-matter resource
across the care team on child and adult protective matters, guardianship, and
end-of-life care coordination. The role requires close collaboration with
hospital administrators, medical teams, and community agencies to ensure
patients receive safe, timely, and well-coordinated care.

Key Responsibilities
Meets face-to-face with patients and families.
Acts as a preceptor to facilitate learning and develop educational materials for
team members, patients, and families.
Provides clinical supervision for social workers who are working toward their
LCSW licensure.
Serves as a field instructor for social work students.
Builds strong working relationships with hospital administrators and medical
teams to drive quality and process improvement.
Serves as a resource and role model for students, interns, LBSWs, and LSWs.
Participates with the clinical team in developing treatment plans to resolve
patients' psychosocial issues and meet psychosocial needs, including consulting
with other providers on mental health diagnosis.
Communicates and collaborates with all members of the health care team to
facilitate the episode of care, ensuring patients receive safe, timely services
and that patients and families are provided all necessary resources and
education.
Interprets and communicates complex patient/family needs and role models caring
practices to other caregivers.
Assesses patients' and families' psychosocial risk factors, including prior
functioning levels, adequacy of support systems, reaction to illness, and
ability to cope.
Counsels patients and families on the emotional, social, and financial
consequences of illness and/or disability, and accesses and mobilizes
family/community resources to meet identified needs.
Provides mental health assessments of patients upon physician referral.
Provides therapeutic intervention to facilitate complex discharge planning.
Serves as the point person for child abuse/neglect, adult/elderly abuse/neglect,
institutional abuse, and domestic violence cases.
Serves as liaison between Indiana University Health and state and county child
and adult protective teams.
Maintains principles and practices of crisis intervention and de-escalation
techniques.
Provides intervention in guardianship (temporary/permanent), foster care,
adoption, and mental health level II placements.
Provides specialized mental health services, including crisis intervention and
addiction assessments, with recommendations for psychiatric referral or
community resources.
Assists with dangerous and potentially dangerous situations, taking a leadership
stance to provide clinical intervention.
Supports patients undergoing acute crisis, using de-escalation techniques as
needed to avoid episodes of physical violence.
Utilizes effective interviewing principles with alleged victims, perpetrators,
family members, and significant others.
Provides intervention for end-of-life care, guardianship (temporary/permanent),
foster care, adoption, and related needs.
Qualifications
Master's Degree in Social Work required.
Permanent LCSW licensure required.
5 years of experience required in one of the following areas: child welfare,
mental health and addictions, health, school, or community/organizational.
Certification in Crisis Prevention Intervention or an alternative de-escalation
training required within 6 months of hire.
Knowledge of evidence-based psychosocial assessment, short-term therapeutic
counseling, and crisis intervention for patients and families with common mental
health and substance use disorders.
Knowledge of disease processes and human behavior as they relate to
health-related social needs.
Complex discharge planning skills to ensure safe discharge to the next level of
care.
Knowledge of state and county adult and child protective legal mandates.
Knowledge of the principles of growth and development across the life span,
including care at end of life.
Ability to identify decision makers and coordinate and execute goals-of-care
conversations to provide excellent care and manage throughput.
Experience adapting services to geographically, culturally, and financially
diverse populations.
Ability to develop and maintain strong working relationships with hospital
administrators, medical teams, law enforcement, APS/DCS, schools, probation, and
other community agencies as indicated.
Computer literacy and proficiency documenting in an electronic medical record.
May be scheduled to work on-call and holiday rotation.
About IU Health: IU Health is Indiana’s largest and most comprehensive
healthcare system, with nearly 40,000 team members, 16 hospitals, and $8.64
billion in operating revenue. Our programs in cancer, cardiovascular,
neuroscience, orthopedics, pediatrics, and transplants are nationally
recognized. In partnership with the Indiana University School of Medicine, IU
Health combines research, education, and clinical excellence to improve health
outcomes for Indiana communities.

Benefits Designed for You
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* Indiana University Health has nearly 40,000 team members, including more than
3,600 physicians and 1,200 advanced practice providers, and we’re home to the
largest nursing network in Indiana with more than 9,000 nursing team members
at over 800 sites of care.
* IU Health is ranked No. 1 in Indiana by U. S. News & World Report, Riley
Children's Health is ranked among the top children's hospitals in the country
by U. S. News & World Report.
* A unique partnership with the Indiana University School of Medicine – one of
the nation’s largest medical schools – gives patients access to
groundbreaking research and innovative treatments, and it offers team members
access to the latest science and the very best training – advancing
healthcare for all.
* With 15 hospitals, including seven with Magnet designation and eight with
Pathways to Excellence designation, our team members are leading the way
through excellence.
* At Indiana University Health, your personal and professional growth is a top
priority. You will have access to many diverse opportunities to learn and
develop in meaningful ways that matter most to you, such as advanced clinical
training, leadership development, promotion opportunities and cross training
development.
* Indiana University Health is invested in the lives of Hoosiers, leading the
transformation of healthcare to make Indiana one of the nation’s healthiest
states.

Indiana University Health is Indiana’s most comprehensive health system, with 15
hospitals and nearly 40,000 team members serving Hoosiers across the state.
We’re looking for team members who are inspired by challenging and meaningful
work for the good of every patient. People who are compassionate and serve with
a purpose. People who aspire to excellence every day.